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Elsie Welter Natural History Museum of Concordia College (CONCOL)

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The Elsie Welter Natural History Museum is located on the first floor of the Integrated Science Center (ISC) at Concordia College in Moorhead, MN. The museum was named after influential area bird-watcher, world traveller, and Concordia adjunct biology professor Elsie M. Welter. The collections housed at the museum contain specimens in the areas of ornithology, mammalogy, entomology, botany, and malacology. The museum is open for students and researchers at Concordia College, with public outreach programs underway.
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GBIF Dataset page: http://www.gbif.org/dataset/e269ce04-2c22-4de6-a8df-fb2f6f7d73dc
Cite this collection:
Minnesota Biodiversity Atlas (2026). Elsie Welter Natural History Museum of Concordia College. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/h9cmm8 accessed via the Minnesota Biodiversity Atlas Portal, bellatlas.umn.edu on 2026-02-07.

Collection Statistics

  • 19,230 specimen records
  • 197 (1%) georeferenced
  • 5,876 (31%) with media (8,017 total media)
  • 9,264 (48%) identified to species
  • 386 families
  • 747 genera
  • 1,499 species
  • 1,507 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

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Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 0c7df88f-939e-4398-b9ab-e06c320dc598
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights:
Rights Holder: Concordia College
Geographic Distribution - Brazil
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